mulhern
03-23-2001, 12:46 PM
I finally got frustrated enough with my old machine and decided to upgrade and build a new one. I built an Athlon 1Ghz machine that required an new pci sound card.
The board came with onboard sound which was supposally a "Creative" chip set(CT5880) I did not expect it to work, It made noises sometimes but no real sound.
So I bought an Ensonique audio card which is supposed to be an Creative product. According to the RH7 driver list it should have had a ES 1371 chipset. Guess what they upgraded to the "CT5880" for the card.
The Good news is it played sound but with lots of static. MP3s are made with multiple bit rates and this high tech card could not handle it. Go figure? It would actually play single bit rate files like WAV noises fine, but that's it.
Then I bought a cheaper SIIG "Creative Compatible" 16 bit card, which claimed to be the same quality and performance as a "Sound Blaster". It failed miserably. As others have said, there is nothing like the real thing, I am going out and getting the more expensive "Soundblaster 16" and be done with it!
THE QUESTION:
IS there a Sound Driver devlelopment project besides ALSA for alternate cards or some sort of vendor certification program that we can sing the praises of certain vendors?
There has been great efforts made for video card compatiblity, what about sound?
PS: In my experience in compiling third party programs for RH7 kernel 2.2.16 , the ./configure process always fails to find the "/usr/src/linux"= the kernel source.
What's up with that?
Uhhhhggg!
:eek:
The board came with onboard sound which was supposally a "Creative" chip set(CT5880) I did not expect it to work, It made noises sometimes but no real sound.
So I bought an Ensonique audio card which is supposed to be an Creative product. According to the RH7 driver list it should have had a ES 1371 chipset. Guess what they upgraded to the "CT5880" for the card.
The Good news is it played sound but with lots of static. MP3s are made with multiple bit rates and this high tech card could not handle it. Go figure? It would actually play single bit rate files like WAV noises fine, but that's it.
Then I bought a cheaper SIIG "Creative Compatible" 16 bit card, which claimed to be the same quality and performance as a "Sound Blaster". It failed miserably. As others have said, there is nothing like the real thing, I am going out and getting the more expensive "Soundblaster 16" and be done with it!
THE QUESTION:
IS there a Sound Driver devlelopment project besides ALSA for alternate cards or some sort of vendor certification program that we can sing the praises of certain vendors?
There has been great efforts made for video card compatiblity, what about sound?
PS: In my experience in compiling third party programs for RH7 kernel 2.2.16 , the ./configure process always fails to find the "/usr/src/linux"= the kernel source.
What's up with that?
Uhhhhggg!
:eek: